Is the penny dropping that UK workers are now seen as disposable and unprotected by their own govt?
Surely one of the aims in leaving the EU was precisely to water down employment laws? We know that the Tories look to the Republicans for inspiration. Fire at will laws must seem v appealing to those Tory business donors. No constructive dismissals, much fewer employment tribunals etc.
What they didn’t anticipate was just looking quite so shit ever since Johnson set foot in No 10. Really, has there ever been such an utterly chaotic and incompetent PM? Specifically on Johnson we’ve seen the gold wallpapergate and lies about whose paying for unnecessary reno’s, to Johnson opting out of early cobra meetings and his ridiculous Feb 2020 speech, to the Cummingsgate shenanigans, to the parties, to embarrassment of Peppa Pig speech (ours, not his as he doesn’t ‘do’ embarrassment) right through to comparing bloody Brexit with Ukrainians being killed on a daily basis. The cock ups of his wider cabinet are too many to list, but we can simply look at each and every one of them.
I wonder, but without much hope, if the P&O sackings might finally wake some up to the reality that Johnson’s Tory party simply don’t even register the average voter’s existence. Your consistent Tory voter won’t be put off. But really, you’re average not so well off and increasingly struggling voter must be starting to take notice!